Free music production software
Komplete Start is your gateway to music creation, offering a comprehensive collection of free plugins for producers and songwriters. Get a wide array of premium synths, keys, drums, guitars, choirs, and instruments from across the world, ready to inspire productions in any style. There’s also a range of free effect plugins, giving you all you need to experiment, shape sounds, and polish your tracks to perfection.
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What’s included in Komplete Start?
Instruments and sounds
Massive X Player
Massive X Player makes synthesis simple, packed with presets you can quickly make your own. Load it, play it, and start shaping sounds in seconds. Learn more.
Bass Music Essentials
Club-ready bass presets for Massive X Player, spanning dubstep, drum and bass, grime, and beyond.
Leap
Leap is a new creative sampler in Kontakt 8 Player with fun performance effects to transform your loops and samples.
Lo-fi Vibes for Leap
A collection of chill, jazzy kits with laid-back drum patterns, smooth basses, and mellow horns.
Acoustic Drums for Leap
A live drummer at your fingertips with a versatile collection of punchy organic drum kits and loops.
Hypha
Let your creativity bloom with a collection of hybrid acoustic and electric sounds inspired by nature.
Ethereal Earth
Create new, atmospheric soundscapes and textures that transcend the ordinary with this special Play Series instrument.
Irish Harp
Add the warm, rich tones of a 34-string neo-Irish harp to your productions with this authentic Kontakt instrument.
Yangqin
The sound of a traditional Chinese hammered dulcimer, carefully recorded and with a range of intuitive controls.
Spark ideas with Kontakt 8 Player
The included Kontakt 8 Player gives you access to Tools – a new layer of MIDI features designed to inspire. Use them alongside your favorite Kontakt instruments to speed up your workflow and spark instant ideas.
Chords Tool
Chords lets you quickly write and customize chord progressions that can be played at the press of a single key. Explore over 100 included chord sets for instant harmonic ideas.
Phrases Tool
Phrases is a melody creation tool that allows you to create musical phrases at the touch of a key. It comes with over 100 carefully written groups of melodies, each filtered by genre, style, and type.
Patterns Tool
Patterns is a polyphonic step sequencer and arpeggiator that creates evolving melodies and rhythms. Explore over 40 unique pattern presets designed to spark movement and creativity.Creative and studio effects
Raum
A creative and versatile reverb plugin that makes it simple to sculpt your sounds, from small spaces to huge, granular textures.
iZotope Ozone EQ
Control your sound with laser precision using the Equalizer feature from iZotope's definitive mastering suite, Ozone 12.
iZotope Trash Lite
Featuring over 60 distortion types, Trash Lite is the perfect way to get a taste of iZotope’s iconic chaos engine.
Supercharger
Saturate your tracks with rich, warm tube compression in an intelligent interface designed for easy use.
Let’s get started
Once you’ve downloaded your free music production software, start creating with these handy guides. Need some inspiration? Start exploring your instruments and effects with our step-by-step blog tutorial. In need of technical support? Visit the quick-start guide for detailed assistance on getting started.
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